Debate: humanoid robots unlikely within 10 years, will AI-risk skeptics update?
binarybits · x · 2026-09-06
In an AI-risk exchange, binarybits says he'd be far more worried if highly capable humanoid robots were widely deployed, but judges that won't happen within the next decade. His interlocutor presses him: he once said such an event would change his mind when it seemed decades away — now it looks years away, so will he actually update when it arrives?
Related event: Timothy Lee vs Seth Lazar debate how bad rogue AI can get(20 posts)→
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